Mower County transcript., 1887-06-15
GHOST STORIES.

GHOST STORIES.
An Englishman, who was recently ir
Kansas City on business trip, dreamed
one night that he was walking rapidly
up the main street of the village of Sun.
bury-on-Thames, the home of his moth.
er, in England. On arriving at the
door of his mothers house he saw thai
Grape was tied to the knob, and that
the shutters were closed and the blinds
drawn. He related the dream to a
friend at breakfast in the morning, and
then dismissed it from his mind. In the
afternoon he received a cablegram from
his brother announcing that his mother
had died suddenly the night before.
A lady of Ellaville, Ga., who had
just recovered from serious illness, ex.
pressed desire one day to have quail
or partridge served for her dinner.
The market was secured, but none
could be found, and, as the patient re-
fused to take any other nourishment,
her physician was in quandary. Sud-
denly partridge came auttering down
the chimney and fell limp ind lifeless
on the open hearth in her bed room.
The bird was dressed and cooked, the
lady enjoyed it immensely and the ply
sician was greatly edited by the occur
renee.
A ghost has been performing
strange antics in the old brick school
house on Green street, in Middletown,
Conn.,, and the citizens are being much
wrought up over the matter. The
phantom is supposed to be that of old
Richard Hyland, the eccentric ja1itor of
the building, who died recently, and
whose spirit now fits throug gh the
empty rooms of the school house at
night and lights them up with unearth-
ly light. People who live near the
school house have seen the old fellow
poke his grim visage through the
windows at night and then, retiring to
the tops of the desks, dance an uncan-
ny war dance there in the glare of a
ghostly light. The children refuse to
go to the school any longer, and the af-
fair is to be Investigated.
Mrs. Gordon's little boy, of Cairo,
ILL.,, acted strangely one morning a
week ago and was put to bed. Sud-
denly he called to his mother and said:
''Papa has come back" '"That
is foolish talk, Charlie, said his
mother; ''your papa is dead and can
not come back" "But he's sitting on
your chair there and laughing at you" {"
said the boy. Thinking that the child
was becoming delirious Mrs. Gordon
sent for doctor, but while tho mes
senger was absent the little fellow said:
''Papa tells me that John won't find
the doctor at home. and that you must
now kiss me goodbye" A moment
later the child became unconscious and
soon died, while the messenger on his
return reported that the physician was
out of town. ~'-~
The strange manifestations of ghost
ly spirits in Shelby county Minn., have
excited the good farmers living there
and one of the wealthiest of them,
Lorenzo Powell, is preparing to aban-
don his home because of the disturb
ances. Something over year ago his
daughter. to please her father, married
man she despised, while the lover to
whom she had given her heart was
forbidden tho house. Recently she
died in childbirth and ever since the
sound of shrieks and groans has pro-
ceeded by night from the room which
she occupied, and at times the spirit of
the young woman has come to the
bedside of the old farmer, and wit h
heart-rending sobs upbraided him for
his hard-hearted obstinacy. Powell 8
wife left the house some time ago and
he himself, unable to endure the strain
any longer, is getting ready to seek
relief in a new home.
! At a recent seance in San Francisco
Mrs. j. j.. Whitney gave an interest
ing account of the circumstances which
brought about her conversion to the
spiritualistic faith. Her son Harry, she
said, was brakeman on the Central
Pacific Railroad and was killed in col
lision which occurred three years ago.
He had been in the habit of kissing her
as he leftthe house for his work in the
morning, but on the day Of the accident
neglected to do so. She called to him
as he passed through the gate, but he
shouted back: .sNever mind, mother;
Tn in . hurry now, and TIL give you
three kisses when Iscome home" That
night he came to her bedside and kissed
her thrice. Awakening her husband,
Mrs. Whitney told him Of the circum.
stance. but he refused to believe it. Il
i was then two o'clock in the morning
and at five q messenger brought the
news Of Harry's death. At the inquest
4 1t was ascertained that he died at just
j two o'clock. Subsequently Mrs. Whit.
ney was visited at night on several occa'
sions BY her son, who seemed, she said
I To ha clnthad In the garments Of i'm.